Author: TONKS, ROSEMARY.
Title: The Way Out of Berkeley Square.
Description: Boston: Gambit, 1971. 1st American edition. Semi-autobiographical fiction. 'I'm thirty, and I'm stuck'. Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self-actualisation only ends up leading her into the orbit of a happily married man. A spiky, self-conscious love affair begins, complete with awful dinner dates, devastating kisses and agonising introspection. Can Arabella realise what she wants? Can she escape the trap of being sexy, good and likable? Pp.208. Brown cloth spine with cream cloth boards. Dustwrapper has crease and tear to lower rear edge at spine, 2.8cm loss to base of spine and wear to fore-edge and corner tips but is nw in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. VG/G+.**Rosemary Tonks (1928 – 2014) was an English poet and author. After publishing two poetry collections, six novels, and pieces in numerous media outlets, she disappeared from the public eye following her conversion to Fundamentalist Christianity in the 1970s; little was known about her life past that point, until her death. In 2009 she was the subject of the 30minute BBC Radio 4 Lost Voices documentary, "The Poet Who Vanished".

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